{"id":35185,"date":"2026-11-04T06:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/?p=35185"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:27:06","slug":"first-appeal-section-96-cpc-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/first-appeal-section-96-cpc-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"First Appeals under Section 96 CPC \u2013 Scope, Standing, Consent Decrees and the Limits of Rehearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/span>First Appeal Under Section 96 CPC: Scope, Right to Appeal, Non-Parties and Supreme Court Guidelines<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A first appeal under Section 96 CPC is a statutory right to reconsideration of facts and law, but whether an appeal exists, who may bring it and which issues stay open are three separate questions, and the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decisions in Sakina<\/em> and H. Anjanappa<\/em> sharpen each of them.<\/p>

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